I have to give it to Albedo of Xenosaga. I have never seen a secondary villain quite take the spotlight like him. Despite being a tool in a bigger villain's grander galaxy, time, and dimension-spanning plan of nihilistic genocidal evil - which is in itself basically all so he can bang some chick, all he really wants is the love and acceptance of his twin brother. By torturing him. Vicariously. He does this by mangling clones of the only girl his brother loved but also failed to protect. Anything his brother holds dear, Albedo will destroy.
Albedo is a clone himself. He's a fool but also insane. A psychopath. Too much to get into the child clone soldiers here. He had a defect in his making. He can instantly heal any injury. Heis essentially immortal. The moment he realized he could not die is when he shot himself in the head in a demonstration to his brothers. This is where his mind started to crack. He realized they will someday die and he will be forever alone. Top it off from there an ancient being of pure energy basically mind fucked him and he went fully insane.
Albedo hams it up in about every scene he's in. They are also mortifying and oddly joyful. His melodramatic theatrics are out of this world. He doesn't just chew the scenery, he devours it. His theme is very deliberate and slow. It builds the tension. It gives the feeling of madness. His actions are deplorable and irredeemable but you want to see more. How far can he truly go? Poor Momo. He's one of the most unique JRPG villains.
The man decapitates himself just to prove a point.
12-23-2018, 03:57 PM
Black_Tiger
Maou Garp from Tengai Makyo Fuun Kabuki Den. They did such a great job setting him up with npcs and lesser villains telling stories about how he'd corrupted people and ruined lives, before he began to taunt the heroes himself.
The major twist late in the game has so much more impact than when similar things done in other games, as it all ties into what makes his character much more than a generic bad guy who wants to rule or destroy the world.
The long endgame sets the Kabukiden apart from other story driven games while building Garp up even further at a point when you believe that the game should be already over.
Backed by top quality voice acting and singing with film quality orchestral music, he leaves much more of an impression than most JRPG characters.
Mine would have to be Galam from Cosmic Fantasy 2. He kidnaps your girl and marries her to become immortal and when you get to rescue her he shrugs off your attack and instead of killing you sends you twenty years into the future so you can witness the world under his control.
12-25-2018, 07:02 AM
bultje112
Mine is Craymen from Panzer Dragoon Saga. he starts out as a bonafide villain but turns out as a character with a sympathetic goal despite all. It interested me a lot.
